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· 5 min read · · Featured ·

AI Governance in Two Sentences

I use coding agents every day. Having an agent write a fix and run the tests is useful. Having it run a shell with access to credentials is also a security decision, whether I’m thinking about it at the time or not.

When people ask me what AI governance means for a team using these tools, I start with two responsibilities:

You can explain what your agents did. You can stop actions they should not take.

There is more to governance than that, but those two sentences give us something concrete to examine.

AI Governance in Two Sentences
· 10 min read · ·

The Verdict Is the Easy Part

Two days ago we put a paste box on the open internet. Type a shell command, hit Evaluate, get a verdict — BLOCK, AUDIT, or ALLOW. Same on a second tab for MCP tool calls: tool name, JSON-style args, evaluate, verdict.

The Verdict Is the Easy Part